Mohammed Al-Ghabban

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2006–2010 ----- Director of the Office to the Chairman of Security and Defence Committee 2007–2010 ----- Adviser to Presidency Council of Iraq 2010–2014 ----- Adviser to Minister of Transport 2014–2014 ----- Member of Iraqi Parliament (3rd term) 2014–2016 ----- Iraq Minister of Interior 2017–2018 ----- Adviser to PMF office 2018-2019 ----- Member of the Security and Defence Committee of Iraqi Parliament 2018–2022 ----- Member of Iraqi Parliament (4th term) 2019–2022 ----- Member of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iraqi Parliament 2019–2022 ----- Head of the parliamentary bloc for Fatah Alliance in the Iraqi Parliament He actively participated in various activities of the opposition against the former regime whilst in Iraq and in exile. In 2014, he was elected member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (3rd term) for the province of Baghdad. In October 2014, Al-Ghabban was nominated for the post of Minister of Interior. On 18 October 2014 he won the majority vote at the council of representatives and was approved as minister of interior by a 197–63 vote. On 5 July 2016, two days after the Baghdad bombing in which 323 civilians died, he resigned in protest at the imbalance in the management of the internal security file and stripping the Ministry of the Interior of its powers by intersection of security authorities.

As Minister of Interior During his tenure as Minister of Interior, Al-Ghabban worked to identify priorities in the strategic plan for the advancement of the Ministry and to improve the performance of the security services. In less than two years, he managed to initiate some of the most strenuous projects including:

Building the Iraqi Federal Police forces and developing their combat capabilities, arming and re-training. This was reflected in their overwhelming performance and role in the battles against Daesh; of which liberation of key cities such as Fallujah and Mosul was the most prominent. Implementation of the Iraqi national ID card project which was stalled for decades. Priming and qualifying the Interior Ministry to assume its responsibility of national security by working with the Joint Higher Committees at the Ministry of Defense, the Joint Operations Command and the National Security Advisers. (Since 2003, responsibility and management of Iraq's national/ interior security is directly aligned under the Prime Minister via the Joint Operations Command (Arabic: العمليات المشتركة في العراق), the Interior Ministry is currently (April 2018) absolved from this authority ).